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To: Protagoras

"There are people with agendas who look for openings all day everyday on this site to insert it into topics no matter how far fetched or off topic. This person has made another huge reach to introduce the hatred of freedom loving people into a thread about how people came to their senses about precious children sent to this earth by God."

And you happen to be engaging in hyperbole. Not every conservative agrees with libertarian philosophy. In my view, there is a very strong philosophical case against abortion from a libertarian perspective (non-initiation of force). Happily, Libertarians for Life has very succinctly stated the case for us:

The Libertarian Case Against Abortion

1. Human offspring are human beings, persons from fertilization.
2. Abortion is homicide -- the killing of one person by another.
3. There is never a right to kill an innocent person. Prenatally, we are all innocent persons.
4. A prenatal child has the right to be in the mother's body. Parents have no right to evict their children from the crib or from the womb and let them die. Instead both parents, the father as well as the mother, owe them support and protection from harm.
5. No government, nor any individual, has a just power to legally depersonify any one of us, born or preborn.
6. The proper purpose of the law is to side with the innocent, not against them.

Abortion, or as I prefer to call it 'infanticide', is a very emotional subject that tends to bring out the vitriol in people.

As I see it, there are libertarians who view infanticide as some sort of political right. And then there are other libertarians who bitterly oppose infanticide and can stand foursquare on libertarian principle in doing so.


71 posted on 09/02/2006 4:54:45 AM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner!)
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To: RKBA Democrat

You have it precisely correct.


76 posted on 09/04/2006 8:07:41 PM PDT by Protagoras (Lay down with dogs, get up with fleas)
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